Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth . |
| 2 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 3 | Nkrumah was undecided ; was he really intended to promote the political interests of the intelligentsia ? |
| 4 | It is also intended to support the occupational SVQs . |
| 5 | Part 3 provides examples of the way in which programmes may be developed using the new Sciences modules . |
| 6 | ‘ One passage tries to transform multi-cultural education into a form of Orwellian thought control by telling teachers that children must be taught to acknowledge the positive aspects of homosexual and lesbian households , ’ she says . |
| 7 | This year 's parliament is intended to include the final rites over the 1989 protests as the judiciary reports on its recent ‘ successes ’ in jailing the leaders of the demonstrations . |
| 8 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 9 | Mixing curves are ticked to represent 20% increments , and were calculated using the following parameters . |
| 10 | An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking . |
| 11 | As Myers mentions , there are already some programmes in operation which suggest that the national resource base can be manipulated to accommodate the growing needs of the population without serious impairment of soil fertility . |
| 12 | It has been developed to meet the particular needs of the school . |
| 13 | The main thrust of the survey was to suggest how primary education could be developed to meet the educational requirements of children as well as the ever-changing needs of society . |
| 14 | In his spare time , however , he is constructing a Silence of the Lambs-style cage in his garage near Armadale which is intended to frighten the living daylights out of anyone who enters it . |
| 15 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 16 | This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home . |
| 17 | ‘ Breast milk still provides the gold standard by which infant feeds are measured , because human milk is uniquely formulated to provide the nutritional needs of the baby , ’ said Professor Dodge . |
| 18 | The criticism the Oregon experiment has received highlights the general difficulties of moving towards this kind of explicit rationing system . |
| 19 | The name of the shops is a little misleading ; many of the plants are made from synthetic materials and scores of people have stooped to smell the waxy lilies only to find that they are plastic through and through . |
| 20 | And there are provisions of a restitutionary character designed to restore the respective parties to the share transactions to their former positions . |
| 21 | The idea was that the United Nations arms embargo on ex-Yugoslavia should be lifted to enable the Bosnian Muslims to get the heavy weapons they need . |
| 22 | His long sinuous phrases are designed to enclose the different levels and quirks of reality , just as liquid , spilt on a rough pavement , eventually seeps into every crack and cranny . |
| 23 | Unlike the IBA , however , the ITC will not be responsible for broadcasting television programmes , and it will be expected to enforce the statutory duties by financial penalties imposed on offending television companies . |
| 24 | In addition , Labour is expected to promise the Liberal Democrats fair representation in a new House of Lords , and also in the European Parliament , with PR elections in both cases . |
| 25 | a method of spacing whereby each each character is spaced to accommodate the varying widths of letters or figures , so increasing readability . |
| 26 | New insecticides , first DDT and then organophosphorus compounds , designed to kill the key pests of cotton , the boll weevil and the cotton fleahopper , also killed the natural enemies of minor pests , the bollworm and tobacco budworm . |
| 27 | If Mr Kaifu fails to revive the parliamentary bill designed to support the anti-Iraq forces in the Gulf , the Americans are likely to ask for a lot more than the $4 billion Japan has so far promised to contribute towards the growing expenses there . |
| 28 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 29 | They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities . |
| 30 | if the Convention were deemed to supplant the Federal Rules as the governing law on discovery from a litigant , in this case it would entirely deprive plaintiffs of a major tool of discovery against [ the defendant ] . |